Adventures in the dirt with the Taos Collaborative Archaeology Program...

01/26/2011

Tom

Thursday 17 June 2010

Today I worked on site with Tom Windes, this dendocrinologist. He’s this wonderful tall man with a gray mustache, always in a vest with a million pockets filled with all manner of things and a little archaeologist’s hat on his head - an absolute character.

So I spent most of the day with a power drill with no safety, carefully drilling it into several hundred-year-old vigas and extracting a core for testing.

It was quite an experience. Tom can talk like no other and told fascinating tales of what trees can tell you about people and environment and weather and culture.